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Instagram And The Evolution Of Surf Prosthetics

Mike Coots is adaptable. When the waves in Hawaii were no good for boogie boarding, he learned to surf. And when the rudimentary prosthetic leg he had—a stand-in for the biological one taken by a shark—wasn’t working so well for surfing, he adapted that too.

Nevermind that he was told not to take it into the water in the first place. Nevermind that no one had made a prosthetic surf leg before…